[ubuntu-x] Xserver 1.9 / 1.10 decision

Eric Appleman erappleman at gmail.com
Tue Nov 30 18:53:59 GMT 2010


On 11/30/2010 05:19 AM, Christopher James Halse Rogers wrote:
> Hey Ubuntu-Xers.
>
> At UDS we decided to defer deciding between Xserver 1.9 and 1.10 for
> Natty until the close of the 1.10 merge window, to gauge how dangerous
> 1.10 is likely to be.
>
> The merge window closes tomorrow, and there doesn't seem to be anything
> particularly flammable.  There's lots of cleanup, the new input stuff
> that we'll be getting anyway, and some extra GLX infrastructure which
> drivers may want to hook into.
>
> This all looks fairly benign, so I suggest we go with 1.10 for Natty.
>
> What do other Xers think?
I can't think of any outstanding bugs or issues that would make 1.10 
prohibitive for use, so everything sounds good. Using the newest stable 
bits might be helpful for a polished Unity transition as well.

- Eric



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